Improvement in siphon-bottle



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Letters Patent No. 90,215, dated May 18, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SIPHN-BOTTLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom lit may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH BELL' ALEXANDER, of' the city of Washington, in the county of Washington, and District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Siphon-Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to he a full, clear, and exact description of thev saine, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in Figure l a side view, in perspective, of the metallic head-piece;

Figure 2, a vertical section of the whole apparatus;

Figure 3, a i'ull view, in perspective, of the collar D, divided in halves;

Figure 4:, a full view, in perspective, of the collar D, with its halves joined;

Figure 5, a view of the lower ilanch of the collar D, as inverted, and enclosing the head of the bottle;

Figure 6, a side view, in perspective, of the glass siphon-tube, mounted with its India-rubber headpiece;

Figure 7, a full view, in perspective, of a metallic washer, to go upon the rubber disk R;

Figure 8, a full View, in perspective, of a metallic washer, to go upon the rubber disk G;

Figure 9, a full view, in perspective, of' a sheet-rubber disk, forming the valve G; and in Figure l0, a vertical section of a second arrange` ment of the parts composing the metallic head-piece.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts.

A is a thumb-screw.

B is a crown-piece.

C is a cap-piece. A

D is a double-flanched collar, in two pieces.

E is a draught-tube.

F is a support for the draught-tube E.

Gr is a sheet-'rubber disk, as a valve.

H is a metallic Washer, to press down the edge of valve G.

I is a metallic washer, to press down the edge oi rubber disk R.

K is a rubber tube, an extension ot' the disk R, slipped upon the conical head of' the glass ,Siphontube. i

L is a glass siphon-tnbe.

M is the body ofthe glass bottle'.

N is a ring, of plaster or cement, injected-into the groove of the collar D, for the purpose of' attaching it to the neck of the bottle.

O is the lower part of the crown-piece B, when made in two parts, as in g. 10.

P is the lower part of the cap-piece G, when made in two parts, as in iig. 10. Y

R is a rubber disk, forming part of the head-piece of the glass tube L.

S is the conical throat, through the cap-piece O.

l is a lip, formed on the mouth of the bottle.

V V are holes in the lower lanch of the collar D, to admit the injection of cement into its groove.

W IV are the zigzag partings of the collar D.

My invention relates to au improvement `in that class of bottles called Siphon-bottles, which -is used for the purpose of dispensing aerated or carbonated liquids, and consists of such a construction and ar rangement of the parts as will insure simplicity, ease, and quickness in the filling with liquids and the charging with gas, and also in dispensing the contents when charged; also a certain security against that loss of gas which occurs in all the Siphon-bottles in present use, from a constant oozing through imperfect and badly-constructed joints. v

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I make, after the usual manner in which such things are made, and of such metal or metals as resist the action of carbonio-acid gas, a collar, D, figs. l, 2, 3, 4,

5, and 10, parted in halves, as seen at W W, and having an internal grooveformed by an upper and a lower flanch.

Upon the outer circumference of this collarI cut a strong male-screw thread, and at twoor more points on the face of the lower fia-uch, I cut' the holes V V, to admit the injection of plaster through them.

I then makc a strong bottle, with va small, thick neck, and form at the top a lip, T, which ts loosely in the groove of' the collar D.

I then put ou the collar D, rst the one half, and' then the other, joining them accurately around the lip 'l of the bottle, and then turn the bottle'upside down, and with a small syringe, inject soft plaster or cement through the holes V V in the collar, until all the space of the groove, not occupied by the lip .'I of thebottle, is filled, and the collar thus made fast to the head ofthe bottle in such a manner that it would he impossible to blow it off. o

I next take a glass tube, of proper size, and make one end slightly conical. i

To fit, by slight stretching upon the conical end of this glass tube, l make a vulcanized India-rubber disk, R, with tube K projecting above and below, from its centre.

This rubber disk R and tube K is moulded in one and the same piece, as seen in tig. 6, and when slipped on the glass tube L, and properly adjusted, it is put vinto the neck of the bottle, the disk R resting on the male-screw thread to match the thread uponthe collar D', upon which I then screw the cap tightly, so as to compress the outer edge of the rubber disk R, herlmetically upon the upper anch ofthe collar D.

The cap-pieceC is made to rise, cone-shaped, from above a'number of facets cut on it, for the adaptation of a wrench, (see iig. 1,) and the upper part X., iig. 2,

is'spread out into a disk of sufficient diameter andthickness to admit of a male-screw thread' being cut von its outer edge, and of a holev being madevertically through it, outside of the central throat S, for the admission of the upper end of the crooked draught-pipe E,'which I make, and solder into it.

The pipe E, I support, if necessary, by soldering, between it and the cap C, the ornamental scroll-piece F, I then make a disk, of thin sheet-rubber, G, figs.

. 9 and 2, for a valve, which is ,laid on the top X of the cap C, so as to coverthe central orifice of the throat S, and the upper orifice ofthe pipe E.

Upon this rubber disk I lay a metallic washer, H,

figs. 8 and 2, so as-to press hermetically the outer edge of the rubber disk upon ther head X, of the cap C.

I then make the conical crown-piece B with facets, for a wrench, upon the outside of its base, which base I bore out, and cut upon its inner circle, a femalescrew thread, to match the male thread on the head X.

I then bore a vertical hole through its centre, larger in diameter than the npperorifice of the throat S, and cut through it a female-screw thread. The crownpiece B is now screwed down firmly upon the head X.

I then make the thumb-piece A, figs. l and 2, .with

i a round shankrextending downward, upon-which I cut a male-screw thread, to match the female thread in the central orifice of the crown B.

I th'en screw the piece A into the piece B, until its lower end comes in contact with the rubber disk G, when the apparatus is complete. If I prefer not to use 'the washers H and I, figs. 7 8, and 2, I make the crown-piece into parts B andO, fig. 10; O adapted toB by a shoulder on its upper part, so as to turn, while B remains stationary. 'I'

lic head again upon also make the cap-piece into parts, P and 0,' iig. l0; P adapted to G by a shoulder on its upper part, so as to turn, while C remains stationary.

To operate this apparatus, I take off the whole metallic head'by unscrewin g it from the collar D. I take out the rubber piece R, with the glass tube L, and iill the bottle not quite full of the liquid to be charged with gas, and then" return the rubber piece R and glass tube L to their place, and also screw the metalthe collar D, first adjusting the washer I.

If the lower end .of the draught-pipe E be now connected with a gas-generator, and the thumb-piece A be unscrewed enough to raise the lower end of its shank entirely from cont-act with theI rubber disk G, then the rubber disk G will rise sufficiently to allo'w the gas .to ow freely upward, through the pipe E, under the disk G, into the throat S, and downward through the glass tube L, dispersing itself throughout the body of the liquid. i

When the charge of gas is sucient, the thumbpiece A is turned down until the lower end of its shank presses the vcentre of the rubber disk G upon the mouth of the throat S, closing it tightly.

The apparatus may now be removed from connection with the gas-generator, and being fully charged, its gaseous liquidconteuts may be dispensed with certainty and ease, by simply working the thumbscrew A.

Having described my invention and its application, What I claim as new, and as my invention, and desire to secure by Lettersy Patent, is-

The :India-rubber piece, represented in fig. 6, with its lower tube K, its flanch or ydisk R, and its upper conical tube Z, in combination Iwith the glass tube L, having its upper end conical, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth'.

I Also, the combination of the two-part collar D, and its 4upper anch a, and its groove y, and its lower @auch f, and .its holes V V, with 'the lip`T, on the neck of the bottle M, and the cement filling N, subv'stantially as described, andfor the purpose set forth.

Also, the combination of the cap (l with its conivcal throat S, and the draught-'pipe E, and the Indiarubber disk G, and the pipe-support F, and the washer H, and the crown B, and the thumb-screw A, in combination with the washer I, rubber piece K -R Z, glass tube L, collar D, lip T, on the mouth of bottle M, and

cementfilling N, substantially as described," and for the purpose set forth.

' J. B. ALEXANDER. Witnesses: f

A. M. S'roU'r, Cms. H. FLETCHER. 

